* adds more intelligent save logic and diff to network config modules
* adds sha1 property to NetworkConfig
* adds new argument save_when to argument_spec
* adds new argument diff_against to argument_spec
* adds new argument intended_config to argument_spec
* renames config argument to running_config with alias to config
* deprecates the use of the save argument
* before and after now work with src argument
* misc module clean
Modules updated
* nxos_config
* ios_config
* eos_config
Most notably this makes the save mechanism more intelligent for config
modules for devices that need to copy the ephemeral config to
non-volatile storage.
The diff_against argument allows the playbook task to control what the
device's running-config is diff'ed against. By default it will return
the diff of the startup-config.
* removes ios_config from pep8/legacy_files.txt
* extends the ignore lines argument to the module
* clean up CI errors
* add missing list brackets
* fixes typo
* fixes unit test cases
* remove last line break when returning config contents
* encode config string to bytes before hashing
* fix typo
* addresses feedback in PR
* update unit test cases
* test/: PEP8 compliancy
- Make PEP8 compliant
* Python3 chokes on casting int to bytes (#24952)
But if we tell the formatter that the var is a number, it works
* Fixes#24251 save config only if it is changed
Save to startup configuration only when it is different
from running configuration.
* Fix unit test issue
* updates all ios modules to support persistent socket
* adds ios action plugin to connect to device
* adds exec_command() to ios shared module
* fixes ios_config and ios_template local action
* update all unit test cases
* adds base test module for ios module testing
* returns support for prompt/response over cli
* now sends native dict instead of str command
* fixes issue with run_commands() in ios to jsonify request
* updates unit test cases
* updates the ios_config module to use the network_cli plugin
* updates the local action plugin to derive from network
* add unit test cases for ios_config
* updates the deprecated ios_template module to use network_cli
* adds unit test cases for ios_template
* adds check for provider argument and displays warning message
Trishna Guha